This presentation gives a quick insight into how Scopus can benefit the scientific community and which value it adds to research institutions. Increasing the speed to discovery and making resources more visible are just a few key drivers for the world wide success of www.scopus.com. Read more on at http://info.scopus.com

1. Empower your users and strengthen
your institute for the Future
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Scopus – the one solution to enable your community to
achieve better results, faster
Date: 2009

2. How do you cope with the explosion of
information?
Trends in the information age
Less time to do more research
Researchers spend 10.7 hours per week in 2009
finding information compared to 5.5 hours in 2006
36% of online searches fail to find relevant information
89% college students use Google to search literature only 2% start
from a library web site
Science is getting more competitive, more inter-national and
more inter-disciplinary
84% of researchers report an increase in pressure to deliver more
quickly than a year ago
What about the quality of information?
“Many young people do not find library-sponsored resources intuitive
and therefore prefer to use Google or Yahoo instead: these offer a
familiar, if simplistic solution, for their study needs.”
– Study of the British Library and JISC
Source: Outsell, Inc “STM End-User Survey Part 1 – Scientists and Engineers” - Volume 3, June 11, 2009
College Students’ Perceptions of the Libraries and Information Resources: A Report to the OCLC Membership. Dublin,
OH: OCLC, 2006.
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3. Do you recognize the same challenges?
This is what we learned from your peers
“How can I maximize the usage of my library
resources…”
“How can I maximize my return of invest-
ment by making resources more visible…“
“How can I best support my community to
become more efficient…”
“How can I reduce spending time on
gathering and analyzing information…”
“How can I provide my community with easy
access to the most relevant, comprehensive
and up to date information available…
…and let them focus more on their actual
research”
How about a solution that supports
all that
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4. Our users faced the same challenges!
“At our “Fachhochschule” we needed to do something about our
library resources which were seriously under-utilized.”
“Scopus’ full-text linking capabilities have greatly expanded
full text accessibility for our end users. Several of our largest
resources have seen increases in retrieving full-text of more
than 500%
Georg Schmidt,
Web Services “Too many student and researcher use Google to do their search
Librarian, German outside the library. With Scopus we finally could offer a tool with
University of easy access while assuring the trustworthiness and quality of
Applied Sciences the content.”
– Librarian, Optical Research Institute, Canada
Leverage existing library resources
Trusted source for research literature
Drives information literacy
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5. Our users faced the same challenges!
“A challenge for us is balancing the goals of
meeting client needs with various resources
and finding budgetary efficiencies.”
“Scopus has helped us do that. One of the best
things about Scopus is that it is an affordable
multidisciplinary database which is constantly
Alison Whiddon updated not only in its content, but also with
Coordinator, Natural enhanced features.
Resources Canada Broad disciplines can be integrated within a search
Library – Ottawa and alerts and RSS feeds let us know when new
or updated information is available.”
Broadest multidisciplinary coverage
Consistent and transparent quality
Find key information faster
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6. What can Scopus do for you? – Broadest
coverage!
Abstracts and citations from 1,200 Open Access journals
A rich 5000 publishers 80% of all Scopus records have an
and ex- 3,6 Million conference papers abstract
tended (10% of Scopus records) Abstracts going back to 1823
coverage “Articles in Press” from more than Nearly 3,500 Arts & Humanities titles
including 3000 titles 430 m integrated scientific websites
23 Million Patents via Scirus.com
~16,500 600 350
Nearly 18,000 Titles including
“It is broader in scope but also richer in different
16,500 Peer Reviewed Titles kinds of content. It is much easier to use and
therefore has more immediate impact.”
600 Trade Journals
350 Book Series
Extensive Conference Proceedings – Chief librarian, The Food and Agricultural
Organization of the United Nations
40 languages are covered
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7. What can Scopus do for you? – Quality,
Accuracy and Speed!
Basic Search
Search only quality materials
Get a fast overview
what is available
Benefit from searching on Peer Become efficient and
Scopus as it only includes Reviewed effective
authoritative information Results
Be selective about
what you read
Refine
Refine your search results,
Search
saving you time
Functionality “Scopus – I use it as it is more
relevant, well structured and
Assess abstracts, references Abstracts helps me to easily navigate
and citations to determine the and Citation and filter through the world’s
relevancy for your needs Tracking research literature
- Information Specialist,
Full Text Articles or Subject Technical Institute, Germany
Specific Databases
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8. What can Scopus do for you? – Connect
disciplines and don’t miss anything!
Agriculture Life Science Agriculture
1 2 3
1 An article in the field of Agriculture* refers to an ”For teaching purposes it is
article in the field of Life Sciences. important to have the Web
included as well. Scopus has
2 The second article would have been missed with
just an Agriculture database, this article cites the this and this closes the gap for
third article student education.”
3 The third article in the field of Agriculture was not
– Professor of Chemistry,
referenced by the first article and may prove vital
Nice University
for the research
* Cottrell, T.R. and Doering, T.L., Silence of the strands: RNA interference in eukaryotic pathogens, January 2003
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9. What can Scopus do for you? – View and Track an
author’s work
Importance of Access to the Expertise
Screenshot: Scopus Author Information
of Other Researchers
Not Important
Somewhat
Important 2%
14% Extremely
Vital
38%
Vital
48%
“Author identification in Scopus is so easy to use and solves a Get an overview of an author at a glance
problem that experienced users have long expressed a frustration
with. It also builds on an existing strength of Scopus; supporting the Navigate forward and backward in time
collaboration between authors.” using cited references
Amy Knapp, Assistant University Librarian for Public Services and
Alerts for an author’s new publications
Departmental Libraries, USA
Source: “The Role of Information in Innovation”, Martin Akel & Associates, January 2005
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10. Turn complexity into simplicity for your
community!
Screenshot Scopus Result Page
Clean, Clear & Intuitive
“Plug and play”
Refine results
and easy
Reduce training
Speed up research by
enabling to assimilate
a large volume of
Direct links data quickly
to full text
”Advantages of Scopus are speed, speed, speed! I use Scopus for identifying proper
citations, staying current in rapidly moving fields, and knowing whom to cite for grants..”
– Professor Peter Stambrook, University of Cincinnati, U.S.A.
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11. See how Scopus could work for you!
Customers confirmed that Scopus
effectively helped to
Provide directions and easy access to trust-
worthy global and regional quality content
Support the quality of research while
increasing the use of integrated library
resources
Appreciate quality, currency and
comprehensiveness of content
Build scientific knowledge and drive
research through better tools “Considering this was my first use
Optimize the use of library resources of Scopus it was extremely easy to
through direct linking use and allowed me to do multiple
things at the same time.”
Aid reporting and alerting needs to stay
up to date
Educate students in the principles of – Researcher, global defense techno-
scientific research logy and security Institute
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